2005 Michigan Wolverines football team

American college football season

2005 Michigan Wolverines football

Alamo Bowl, L 28–32 vs. Nebraska

Conference| Big Ten Conference
Record| 7–5 (5–3 Big Ten)
Head coach|

* Lloyd Carr (11th season)

Offensive coordinator| Terry Malone (4th season)
Offensive scheme| Multiple
Defensive coordinator| Jim Herrmann (9th season)
Base defense| Multiple
MVP| Jason Avant
Captains|

* Jason Avant
* Pat Massey

Home stadium| Michigan Stadium
(Capacity: 107,501)

Seasons

<- 2004

2006 ->

2005 Big Ten Conference football standings

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Team |  | W |  | L |  |  |  |  | W |  | L |
No. 3 Penn State $+  |  | 7  | - | 1  |  |  |  |  | 11  | - | 1  |
No. 4 Ohio State %+  |  | 7  | - | 1  |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 2  |
No. 15 Wisconsin |  | 5  | - | 3  |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 3  |
Michigan |  | 5  | - | 3  |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 5  |
Northwestern |  | 5  | - | 3  |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 5  |
Iowa |  | 5  | - | 3  |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 5  |
Minnesota |  | 4  | - | 4  |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 5  |
Purdue |  | 3  | - | 5  |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 6  |
Michigan State |  | 2  | - | 6  |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 6  |
Indiana |  | 1  | - | 7  |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 7  |
Illinois |  | 0  | - | 8  |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 9  |

* $ - BCS representative as conference champion
* % - BCS at-large representative
* \+ - Conference co-champions

Rankings from AP Poll

The 2005 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Lloyd Carr. The Wolverines played their home games at Michigan Stadium. That year Michigan Wolverines football competed in the Big Ten Conference in almost all intercollegiate sports including men's college football. Despite a disappointing 7–5 finish after being ranked as high as No. 3 early in the season, Michigan did not lose a game by more than a touchdown and upset Penn State, who finished #3 in the nation, on a last second touchdown pass from Chad Henne to Mario Manningham. The team earned an invitation to the 2005 Alamo Bowl, where it lost to the Nebraska Cornhuskers by a 32–28 margin. The team's first five conference games were all decided in the final 24 seconds of regulation or in overtime.[1]

## Schedule

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Date| Time| Opponent| Rank| Site| TV| Result| Attendance

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September 3| 3:30 p.m.| Northern Illinois*| No. 4|

* Michigan Stadium
* Ann Arbor, MI

| ABC| W 33–17| 110,971
September 10| 12:00 p.m.| No. 20 Notre Dame*| No. 3|

* Michigan Stadium
* Ann Arbor, MI (rivalry)

| ABC| L 10–17| 111,386
September 17| 12:00 p.m.| Eastern Michigan*| No. 14|

* Michigan Stadium
* Ann Arbor, MI

| ESPN Plus| W 55–0| 109,511
September 24| 6:00 p.m.| at Wisconsin| No. 14|

* Camp Randall Stadium
* Madison, WI

| ESPN2| L 20–23| 83,022
October 1| 12:00 p.m.| at No. 11 Michigan State| |

* Spartan Stadium
* East Lansing, MI (rivalry)

| ABC| W 34–31 OT| 79,401
October 8| 1:00 p.m.| Minnesota| No. 21|

* Michigan Stadium
* Ann Arbor, MI (Little Brown Jug)

| ABC| L 20–23| 111,117
October 15| 3:30 p.m.| No. 8 Penn State| |

* Michigan Stadium
* Ann Arbor, MI (rivalry)

| ABC| W 27–25| 111,249
October 22| 12:00 p.m.| at Iowa| |

* Kinnick Stadium
* Iowa City, IA

| ABC| W 23–20 OT| 70,585
October 29| 7:00 p.m.| at No. 21 Northwestern| No. 25|

* Ryan Field
* Evanston, IL (rivalry)

| ESPN| W 33–17| 47,130
November 12| 12:00 p.m.| Indiana| No. 21|

* Michigan Stadium
* Ann Arbor, MI

| ESPN2| W 41–14| 110,580
November 19| 1:00 p.m.| No. 9 Ohio State| No. 17|

* Michigan Stadium
* Ann Arbor, MI (rivalry)

| ABC| L 21–25| 111,591
December 28| 8:00 p.m.| vs. Nebraska*| No. 20|

* Alamodome
* San Antonio, TX (Alamo Bowl)

| ESPN| L 28–32| 63,016

* *Non-conference game
* Homecoming
* Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
* All times are in Eastern time

## Game summaries

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### Michigan State

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See also: 2005 Michigan State Spartans football team and Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry

Paul Bunyan Trophy: Michigan Wolverines (2–2) at #11 Michigan State Spartans (4–0)

Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3| 4| OT| Total

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Michigan | 14 | 10 | 0| 7| 3| 34
Michigan St | 7 | 14 | 3| 7| 0| 31

at Spartan Stadium • East Lansing, Michigan

* Date: October 1
* Game time: 12:00 p.m. EDT
* Game attendance: 79,401
* Referee: Dennis Lipski
* TV announcers (ABC): Brent Musburger, Gary Danielson, and Jack Arute
* Michigan Football

Game information

Michigan

* Chad Henne
26/35, 256 Yds, 3 TD, INT
* Mike Hart
36 Rush, 218 Yds, TD
* Jason Avant
10 Rec, 96 Yds,TD

Michigan State

* Drew Stanton
20/30, 282 Yds, TD, INT
* Jason Teague
8 Rush, 72 Yds
* Jerramy Scott
3 Rec, 80 Yds

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Scoring summary

| Quarter  | Time  | Drive | Team  | Scoring information  | Score

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Plays | Yards  | TOP | MICH  | MSU
1  | 8:23  | 10  | 98  | 3:40  | Michigan  | Jason Avant 2-yard touchdown reception from Chad Henne, Garrett Rivas kick good  | 7  | 0
1  | 7:03  | 2  | 52  | 0:15  | Michigan  | Mario Manningham 43-yard touchdown reception from Chad Henne, Garrett Rivas kick good  | 14  | 0
1  | 2:44  | 10  | 80  | 4:19  | Michigan St  | Drew Stanton 4-yard touchdown run, John Goss kick good  | 14  | 7
2  | 11:20  | 11  | 87  | 3:44  | Michigan  | Brian Thompson 5-yard touchdown reception from Chad Henne, Garrett Rivas kick good  | 21  | 7
2  | 5:53  | 12  | 78  | 5:21  | Michigan St  | Jehuu Caulcrick 1-yard touchdown run, John Goss kick good  | 21  | 14
2  | 3:30  | 2  | 67  | 0:49  | Michigan St  | Kerry Reed 61-yard touchdown reception from Drew Stanton, John Goss kick good  | 21  | 21
2  | 0:09  | 13  | 69  | 3:15  | Michigan  | 20-yard field goal by Garrett Rivas  | 24  | 21
3  | 11:11  | 4  | 8  | 2:24  | Michigan St  | 26-yard field goal by John Goss  | 24  | 24
4  | 11:29  | 5  | 80  | 2:09  | Michigan  | Mike Hart 1-yard touchdown run, Garrett Rivas kick good  | 31  | 24
4  | 6:43  |  |  |  | Michigan St  | Fumble recovery returned 74 yards for touchdown by Domata Peko, Kyle Mayer kick good  | 31  | 31
OT  |  | 3  | 7  |  | Michigan  | 35-yard field goal by Garrett Rivas  | 34  | 31
"TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football. | 34  | 31

### Penn State

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Penn State at Michigan  |  | 1 | 2| 3| 4| Total

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Penn State | 0 | 0| 3| 22 | 25
• Michigan | 0 | 3| 7| 17 | 27

* Date: October 15
* Location: Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI
* Game start: 3:30 p.m. EST
* TV announcers (ABC): Brad Nessler (Play-by-play), Bob Griese (Color) & Lynn Swann (Sideline)

* Source: ESPN

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2| MICH| 4:34| Garrett Rivas 35-yard field goal| MICH 3-0
3| 11:10| MICH| Mike Hart 2-yard run (Garrett Rivas kick)| MICH 10-0
3| :10| PSU| Kevin Kelly 25-yard field goal| MICH 10-3
4| 11:56| PSU| Michael Robinson 4-yard run (Kevin Kelly kick)| Tied 10-10
4| 11:39| PSU| Alan Zemaitis 35-yard fumble return (Kevin Kelly run)| PSU 18-10
4| 9:32| MICH| Mario Manningham 33-yard pass from Chad Henne (Mike Hart run)| Tied 18-18
4| 3:45| MICH| Garrett Rivas 47-yard field goal| MICH 21-18
4| :53| PSU| Michael Robinson 3-yard run (Kevin Kelly kick)| PSU 25-21
4| :00| MICH| Mario Manningham 10-yard pass from Chad Henne (no kick)| MICH 27-25

### Iowa

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• Michigan | 0 | 7| 3| 7| 6 | 23
Iowa | 7 | 7| 0| 3| 3 | 20

* Date: October 22
* Location: Kinnick Stadium • Iowa City, IA
* Game start: 12:10 p.m. EST
* TV announcers (ABC): Mike Tirico (Play-by-play), Tim Brant (Color) & Suzy Shuster (Sideline)

| Scoring summary

1| 9:07| IOWA| Herb Grigsby 15-yard pass from Drew Tate (Kyle Schlicher kick)| Iowa 7-0
2| 13:45| MICH| Jason Avant 5-yard pass from Chad Henne (Garrett Rivas kick)| Tie 7-7
2| 8:09| IOWA| Herb Grigsby 4-yard pass from Drew Tate (Kyle Schlicher kick)| Iowa 14-7
3| 8:25| MICH| Garrett Rivas 27-yard field goal| Iowa 14-10
4| 8:51| MICH| Steve Breaston 52-yard pass from Chad Henne (Garrett Rivas kick)| Michigan 17-14
4| :00| IOWA| Kyle Schlicher 32-yard field goal| Tie 17-17
OT| | IOWA| Kyle Schlicher 28-yard field goal| Iowa 20-17
OT| | MICH| Jerome Jackson 1-yard run| Michigan 23-20

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## Personnel

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### Coaching staff

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* Head coach: Lloyd Carr
* Assistant coaches: Erik Campbell (assistant head coach), Mike DeBord,[Jim Herrmann] Ron English, Fred Jackson, Ron Lee, Scot Loeffler, Andy Moeller, Steve Stripling, Steve Szabo
* Trainer: Paul Schmidt

### Roster

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2005 Michigan Wolverines football team roster

Players  | Coaches
Offense | Pos. | # | Name | Class

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WR | `16` | Adrian Arrington | So
WR | `8` | Jason Avant | Sr
WR | `18` | Antonio Bass | Fr
WR | `15` | Steve Breaston | Sr
RB | `3` | Kevin Grady | Fr
QB | `12` | Matt Gutierrez | Sr
RB | `20` | Mike Hart | So
QB | `7` | Chad Henne | So
G | `57` | Adam Kraus | Jr
G | `67` | Matt Lentz |  Sr
OT | `77` | Jake Long | Jr
WR | `86` | Mario Manningham | Fr
TE | `88` | Tim Massaquoi |  Sr
G | `60` | David Moosman | Fr
OT | `71` | Mark Ortmann | Fr
OL | `72` | Rueben Riley | Sr
OT | `79` | Adam Stenavich |  Sr
Defense | Pos. | # | Name | Class

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S | `22` | Jamar Adams | So
DT | `80` | Alan Branch | So
LB | `6` | Prescott Burgess | Jr
LB | `2` | Shawn Crable | Jr
LB | `37` | Chris Graham | So
CB | `29` | Leon Hall | Jr
LB | `45` | David Harris | Sr
DE | `90` | Tim Jamison | So
CB | `13` | Grant Mason | Fr
S | `21` | Ryan Mundy | Jr
CB | `25` | Johnny Sears Jr. | Fr
DT | `67` | Terrance Taylor | Fr
CB | `14` | Morgan Trent | So
DT | `78` | Gabe Watson | Sr
DE | `56` | LaMarr Woodley | Jr
LB | `99` | Pierre Woods |  Sr
Special teams | Pos. | # | Name | Class

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P | `41` | Zoltán Meskó | Fr
K | `38` | Garrett Rivas | Jr

Head coach

* Lloyd Carr

Coordinators/assistant coaches

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Legend

* (C) Team captain
* (S) Suspended
* (I) Ineligible

* Injured
* Redshirt

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Roster

## Statistical achievements

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The team led the conference in kick return average in all games (23.4), while Michigan State led in conference games.[3] Mike Hart set the school record for career 200-yard games (4), passing Ron Johnson's 3 set in 1968. He extended the record, which is still standing, to 5 in 2007.[4] His 200-yard game came after missing two and a half games due to injury. During the three injury-affected games Michigan lost to Notre Dame and Wisconsin and slipped out of the polls for the first time since 1998, snapping the nation's longest streak of 114-straight poll appearances.[5]

## Awards and honors

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* Co-captains: Jason Avant, Pat Massey
* Academic All-American: Avant (second team)[6]
* All-Conference: Jason Avant, Matt Lentz, Adam Stenavich, Gabe Watson
* Most Valuable Player: Jason Avant
* Meyer Morton Award: Tim Massaquoi
* John Maulbetsch Award: Chad Henne
* Frederick Matthei Award: Leon Hall
* Arthur Robinson Scholarship Award: Paul Sarantos, David Schoonover
* Hugh Rader Jr. Award: Adam Stenavich
* Robert P. Ufer Award: Tim Massaquoi
* Roger Zatkoff Award: David Harris
* Dick Katcher Award: Alan Branch

## References

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1. ^ Lopresti, Mike (October 23, 2005). "Six unbeatens must fit into two slots for shot at title". USA Today. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
2. ^ "Iowa's Home Win Streak Ends With OT Loss". ESPN. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
3. ^ "Big Ten Conference Football Full Media Guide". CBS Interactive/Big Ten Conference. January 5, 2010. p. 59\. Archived from the original on July 3, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
4. ^ "Record Book" (PDF). CBS Interactive. January 5, 2010. p. 115\. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 7, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
5. ^ "Spartans' first loss at hand of nemesis Wolverines". ESPN. October 1, 2005. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
6. ^ "Michigan's Academic All-Americans". CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on July 18, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2010.

## External links

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* 2005 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History
* 2005 Michigan at NCAA.org
* 2005 statistics at ESPN.com

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Michigan Wolverines football

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